Case studies

published:June 2009

We have chosen four case studies, all conducted by teachers, which illustrate aspects of the findings of the study.

The first case study describes an ‘Assertive Mentoring’ scheme which helped to turn around the performance of disaffected secondary students.

The second case study describes how two teachers looked at the use of teaching assistants across a whole authority, and in particular looked at the importance of the relationship between the TA and classroom teacher.

The ‘Sport Education’ model is the subject of case study three, describing how this model made an impact by handing more responsibility for learning over to all students in mixed ability groups, targeting in particular low attaining GCSE students.

Finally case study four describes how a primary school considered its own inclusion strategies, asked pupils for their opinion and subsequently improved practice for low attaining pupils.